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The conceited villager believes the entire world to be his village.
José Martí1853–1895Our America (1891)
Me and Jesus are cool. I’m cool with all the gods. Gods recognize gods.
Conor McGregorborn 1988“UFC 197 press conference” (January 2016), Ultimate Fighting Championship, Zuffa, LLC
- God
I am cocky in prediction, I am confident in preparation but I am always humble in victory or defeat.
Conor McGregorborn 1988UFC 178 post-event press conference (September 2014), Ultimate Fighting Championship, Zuffa, LLC
- Character
Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I’d strike the sun if it insulted me.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter XXXVIIn context
- Anger
The essence of a self-reliant and autonomous culture is an unshakeable egoism.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956
Self-respect — The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
- Comedy
One may be humble out of pride.
Michel de Montaigne1533–1592Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Book II, Ch. 17. Of Presumption
The noble soul has reverence for itself.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Beyond Good and Evil (1886), Chapter IXIn context
- Character
Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
Florence Nightingale1820–1910Letter (5 September 1857), quoted in The Life of Florence Nightingale (1913) by Edward Tyas Cook, p. 369
Everyone has his vanity, and each one’s vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.
Fernando Pessoa1888–1935The Book of Disquiet
It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.
Vladimir Putinborn 1952A plea for caution from Russia, The New York Times, (12 September 2013) / Also published in the Guardian (12 September 2013)
- Politics
The waves belong to the Ganges, not the Ganges to the waves. A man cannot realize God unless he gets rid of all such egotistic ideas as “I am such an important man” or “I am so and so”.
Ramakrishna1836–1886The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 385
- God
In private life there are few beings more obnoxious than the man who is always loudly boasting; and if the boaster is not prepared to back up his words his position becomes absolutely contemptible.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919National Duties (Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick) (1901)
- Character
You strip from me the laurel and the rose!
Take all! Despite you there is yet one thing
I hold against you all, and when, to-night,
I enter Christ’s fair courts, and, lowly bowed,
Sweep with doffed casque the heavens’ threshold blue,
One thing is left, that, void of stain or smutch,
I bear away despite you.
Edmond Rostand1868–1918Cyrano de Bergerac (1897), Act V: Cyrano’s Gazette, Scene VI, spoken by CyranoIn context
- Honor
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
John Ruskin1819–1900Modern Painters (1843-1860), Volume IV, part V, chapter III, section 22 (1856)